xml tree writing with ElementTree; prepends elements with ns0

[Alain Ketterlin]

Alain Ketterlin <alain at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:

> "Alex van der Spek" <alex.vanderspek at tno.nl> writes:
>
>> When reading a tree and writing it back to a new file all the elements are 
>> prepended with the string ns0:
>
> That's a namespace prefix.
>
>>
>> Why is it prepended and how can I suppress this?
>
> See http://effbot.org/zone/element-namespaces.htm
>
> I'm not sure you can define the default namespace (i.e., avoid prefixes
> on element names). However, any conformant XML processor should have no
> problem with the output of ElementTree.

Sorry, it looks like you can with ET 1.3: see
http://effbot.org/zone/elementtree-13-intro.htm

> If you're actually producing HTML, then you should say so when calling
> tostring(), by giving the appropriate value to the method argument.
>
> -- Alain.